Three Witchlike Projections Through Proust Magic Lantern Reflections About Interphases of Imaginaries Projection in Cinema
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Specific citations which have been taken from the magic lantern's passage described in Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way (1913) by Marcel Proust is used as anchors to tackle some examples of witchy “projections” depicted in three films: Angeli bianchi, angeli neri (1970), Virgin Witch (1972) and The Love Witch (2016). Through the cinematic apparatus, which shares a common lineage with the mechanism and the mystical aura of the magic lantern, this text presents an approach to the illusory nature and ominous origins of the laterna magica to think about how the interfaces and mediations take part in the “projections” of the archetype of the witch on cinematic imaginary, always bearing in mind the political implications of the projected image.
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